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(Entry was posted by Alex McIl on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/20/2014).

What can you do to improve the ranking on Bing & Yahoo?

Say you have keywords ranking well on Google SERPs, however on BING & Yahoo the same keywords are performing badly (sometimes not even displaying on SERPs).....my question is:

What can you do to improve the ranking on Bing & Yahoo?....bearing in mind you do not want to negatively influence the current Google ranking when making changes to the relevant pages.

Thank you?
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  • Alex McIl: Say you have keywords ranking well on Google SERPs, however on BING & Yahoo the same keywords are performing badly (sometimes not even displaying on SERPs).....my question is:

    What can you do to improve the ranking on Bing & Yahoo?....bearing in mind you do not want to negatively influence the current Google ranking when making changes to the relevant pages.

    Thank you
  • Dave Elliott: bing has a webmaster tools in a similar way to google that you can submit a sitemap to. This should help you getting indexed.

    Other than that, i'd just concentrate on ranking well for google as bing (yahoo takes its data from bing in most((it might be all now)) countries) if you are ranking well in Google and indexed in bing, you should have a decent rank.... unless bing isn't indexing a load of your links or anything like that, in which case get better links!
  • Alex McIl: Thanks Dave....got Bing webmaster tools, although for some reason the page does not always load.
  • Raman Mehrotra: Yes i agree i recently updated bing webmaster aswell and found for few keywords we have improved ranking by over 50%
  • Alex McIl: +Raman Mehrotra
    Can you inform me if anyone has problems loading up Bing Webmaster Tools?
    My page tries to open and then stay blank?
  • Dave Elliott: try a different browser. its microsoft, it doesn't play well with others.
  • Alex McIl: +Dave Elliott
    Hi Dave. Thanks for the advice. I have already tried it on Firefox, Chrome and even on my tab....only sometimes do I get it,
  • Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:51:56 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/what_can_you_do_to_improve_the_ranking_on_bing_yahoo +Alex McIl

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  • Alex McIl: Thanks for this +Edwin Jonk it certainly was interesting to listen to the panel, especially regarding the sitemap and keyword meta usage for Bing....maybe my issues if the meta keywords.....huge thank you

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